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Sunday, November 08, 2009

The German Wikipedia has a list of German loanwords in Bulgarian that might be of interest to some readers here. You can see that quite a few of the words come from technical areas, as well as a few chess words in there as well. A lot of the words are also present in Russian. The transcription is a tad different from the actual pronunciation since Bulgarian devoices consonants at the end of a word, and thus a word with a d at the end is actually pronounced as t.

A page from last year is also quite interesting, as it deals with how a lot of Bulgarians choose to have their children learn German as English with its much larger influence and scope is something that is easier to just pick up afterwards, so two birds with one stone. An even better language to choose for this though would be Dutch as it is based on the same principle - since it's harder to find places to use Dutch compared to German then make that one's child's primary foreign language, and then both German and English then become that much easier to learn later on.

German

English

Bulgarian

Transcription

Absatz

paragraph

абзац

abzats

(Sport)anzug

gym suit

анцуг

antsug

Auspuff

exhaust (on a vehicle)

ауспух

auspuf

Autokran

crane (construction)

Автокран

avtokran

Backenbart

sideburns

бакенбард

bakenbard

Backpulver

baking powder

бакпулвер

bakpulver

Benzin

benzine (gasoline)

Бензин

benzin

Bagger

digger/excavator

Багер

bager

Bohrmaschine

drill (boring machine)

бормашина

bormashina

Diesel

diesel

Дизел

dizel

Edelweiß

edelweiss (a kind of flower)

еделвайс

edelvays

(Schraub)fassung

screw (including the grooves on light bulbs, etc.)

фасунга

fasunga

Feuerwerk

fireworks

фойерверк

foyerverk

Feldscher

surgeon

Фелдшер

feldsher

(faules) Geschäft

business deal (also illegitimate profit)

гешефт

gesheft

Kurort

spa (town)

курорт

kurort

Landschaft

landscape

ландшафт

landshaft

Leitmotiv

leitmotif, theme

лайтмотив

laytmotiv

Leberwurst

liverwurst

лебервурст

lebervurst

Mundstück

mouthpiece

мундщук

mundshtuk

(Übungs)platz

training ground

плац

plats

Punkt

point

пункт

punkt

Chassis

chassis

Шаси

shasi

Scheibe

disk, plate, washer, etc.

шайба

shayba

Schiebedach

sunroof

шибидах

shibidah

schleifen

grind, polish

шлайфам

shlayfam

Schuss(fahrt)

schussing (skiing)

шус

shus

Stecker

plug

щекер

shteker

(Apfel)Strudel

(apple) strudel

щрудел

shtrudel

Witz

joke

виц

vits

Wunderkind

child prodigy

вундеркинд

vunderkind

Zeitnot

time pressure (running out of time in chess for example)

цайтнот

tsaytnot

Zement

cement

цимент

tsement

Zifferblatt

dial/face of a clock

циферблат

tsiferblat

Zugzwang

tight spot (in chess where a player has to make a move when it would be preferable to make no move at all)

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comments:

Anonymous
said...

Sellamat Dave !

And Sambahsa has absatz, auspuff, bakenbart, kran, bagher, kurort, lanspect, schib, schleif, schtecker, cifferblat. "chassis" is French. And many words like benzin, diesel, edelweiss...are already international. Many words common to Bulgarian and Byzantine Greek or Ottoman Turkish can be found in Sambahsa too.

And Sambahsa has absatz, auspuff, bakenbart, kran, bagher, kurort, lanspect, schib, schleif, schtecker, cifferblat. "chassis" is French. And many words like benzin, diesel, edelweiss...are already international. Many words common to Bulgarian and Byzantine Greek or Ottoman Turkish can be found in Sambahsa too.